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Thinking LSAT

Episode 70: Big Law Advice from A Recent Graduate

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ben reads and recommends Alexander Hamilton. The biography by Ron Chernow inspired the recent musical phenomenon and Ben thinks it could also be an inspiration for aspiring lawyers. (5:30)

Dreaming of a job in Big Law? If so, fire up your laptop and follow along as a recent law school grad offers advice on scoring a job at a Top 30 firm like she did. First, check out the NALP Directory to find the legal employer you might be interested in. Look at the employment summaries for specific law schools according to reports from the American Bar Association. Check out two articles, here and here, that describe Big Law salaries and the high expectations that can go along with that fat paycheck. Finally, study the bimodal distribution of starting salaries for lawyers by graduation year. (6:30)

Nathan takes Ben back to middle school when he explains the difference between Mean, Median, and Mode. In other words, this is the part where you might want to break for a snack until the math is over. (37:30)

Ben performs a dramatic reading of an email from Michelle, a loyal listener who compares the Blueprint prep course she took in 2012 to what she’s learned from the Thinking LSAT podcast. Since listening, she has made some strategic changes that have improved her practice scores. No Michelle, thank YOU. (51:08)

Kirk is struggling with Logic Games and asks where his study time is best spent leading up to test day (58:05), and Travis wants help getting through the wordy answer choices in Reading Comprehension. (1:07:30)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 70 of the Thinking Elsat podcast in Los Angeles, California.

0:17.0

I'm Nathan Fox. With me in Washington, D.C. is Ben Olson.

0:21.0

Ben, how you doing?

0:22.0

I'm doing great. Thanks. Yeah we got a big

0:25.0

list of emails to get through today so I guess maybe we just dive right in. Yeah, I do have a funny story from that book I was telling you about last week.

0:37.0

Nice.

0:38.0

The book again is Make It Stick by Peter Brown and it's on successful learning techniques.

0:44.6

But today's story that I was listening to on the way into work

0:49.2

was pretty funny.

0:50.9

I guess officers, you know know they train for a lot of different scenarios which is

0:57.5

totally unsurprising and one of the scenarios that they train for is to get a gun out of someone else's hand, right?

1:05.0

And apparently the way to do this is to hit their wrist, which loosens their

1:10.5

grip and then you grab the then you you wrestle the gun away somehow.

1:15.8

And officers practice this all the time

1:19.7

with fellow officers and what you do is you hit the wrist you grab the gun and then you

1:28.0

give it back to them so you can do it again.

1:30.1

Anyways this one officer was doing his job or whatever and encountered this situation

1:38.1

where someone had a gun and he hit the person's wrist and took it out of their hand and then reflexively gave it back to them

1:47.4

And but they were both surprised the person was like what the heck you know

1:51.7

That it actually given him an opportunity to hit his

1:55.0

wrist again and get the gun back but the reason for telling this story aside

2:00.9

from the fact that it's interesting I'm using I'm glad it didn't

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